This year has been difficult for my family and my poor wee blog has been sadly neglected, but things are starting to settle and it's time for one of my favorite blog hop traditions:
For this blog hop, the multi-talented Jeannie of JKD Studios sends out one of her designs for FREE (you only pay the postage) for you to redesign, repurpose or remake into something unique to you.
Sign ups are here or you can click on the banner above.
This is such a fun hop, but spaces are limited so get in quick!
Welcome to Jeannie K Dukic's 7th Do Over Challenge!
Welcome to the 6th Do Over Challenge hosted by mixed media artist extraordinaire Jeannie K Dukik of Jewelry by Jeannie.
For this Challenge, Jeannie sent 20 lucky participants a piece of jewelry to make over. Check out the beautiful packaging!
Welcome to reveal day of Jeannie K's 5th Do-Over!
For this challenge, Jeannie sent each of us one of her pieces that she wasn't completely happy with. Our task was to redesign that piece and make something new and spangly from it.
My problem, was that I liked my piece from Jeannie so much that I was loath to fiddle with it! A beautiful long necklace of large shiny silver plate links (I would get steel core, very substantial and attracted to magnets) interspersed with clear glass nuggets. It sparkled in the sun and attracted lots of comments with it's simple beauty. Oh yes I took it for walks and shopping before that fateful day when I got my pliers out.
Here's the before piece as kindly modelled by a random passing ballerina :
